Tag: Wellness
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Simple Sound Practices to Calm Your Mind and Body
Sound becomes especially powerful when it’s woven into simple, accessible self-care practices—moments where you allow your body to receive rather than effort or fix. Because sound is vibration, even gentle practices can support the nervous system in settling and reorganizing. You don’t need special tools or long sessions; consistency and presence matter more than technique.…
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Walking: A Natural Path to Calm Your Nervous System
When you walk, your nervous system responds before your mind does. Each step sends a quiet signal of safety and forward movement. The ground meets your feet, your arms swing naturally, and your breath begins to find its own rhythm. Without effort, the body starts to soften. As walking continues, breath and movement begin to…
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Grip Strength: A Small Measure With Big Meaning
When most people think about health markers, they picture blood pressure, cholesterol, or maybe how many steps they take each day. But there’s another simple, powerful indicator that tells us a lot about the whole body: grip strength. Why Grip Strength Matters Your grip is more than hand muscles — it’s a reflection of overall nervous system…
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Understanding Neuroception: Healing Through Awareness
When we’ve lived through ongoing stress or trauma, our body’s natural radar for safety—known as neuroception—can become distorted. Instead of reading the present moment accurately, the nervous system continues to interpret life through the filters of past pain or danger. This creates a neuroceptive mismatch: the body feels unsafe even when safety is available. We…
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Stress and your genes
Chronic stress has a powerful influence on the way our genes express themselves—this is the field of Epigenetics, where the environment and our internal experiences can literally shape how genes are turned “on” or “off.” When we experience stress over a long period, it triggers cellular signalling patterns that alter the chemical markers on DNA…
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Hold Your Head Up
Your Brain Will Thank You (And So Will Your I) Ever notice how everyone these days looks like they’re bowing to their phone overlords? Heads hanging low, shoulders curled forward, eyes glued to glowing screens. We even gave it a name: Text Neck. Sounds harmless, right? Wrong. Forward Head Posture (FHP)—that forward tilt we adopt…
D. Shannon Patterson, Chiropractor 